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104-10145-10450 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/1/1978)

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                                              OLC  78-1920
                                              1 May 1978


               MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

               SUBJECT:  Meeting With House Select Committee on Assassinations
                           (HSCA) - 1 May 1978



                   1. (S) On 1 May 1978, a meeting was held with HSCA representatives
              and FBI representatives. Present from the HSCA were: G. Robert Blakey,
              Chief Counsel and Director; Bill Triplett, Gaten Fonzi, and Edwin Lopez.
              Present from the FBI were: Danny Coulson, John Kaul and Jim Freeman.
              Also present were Norbert Shepanek, O/SA/DO/O; Patrick Carpentier, of
              OLC,  and myself.

                   2. (S) Mr. Blakey called the meeting to discuss Bernardo de Torres,
               who is purported to be a potential assassin and who was purported to be in
               Dealey Plaza on 23 November 1963. De Torres was scheduled to appear
               in executive session before the HSCA on 2 May 1978. Mr. Blakey opened
               the meeting criticizing the FBI for not notifying him
                                             until 1 May even though de Torres had
               been s ubpoenaed for the last 3O dYays. Mr. Coulson responded that the FBI
                                                                     and he requested
               that the HSCAk
               Mr . Coulson, on behalf of the B r1


                   3. (S) Mr. Blakey then turned his attention to the Agency's response to
              his written request for any and all files on de Torres. Mr. Shepanek
              pointed out that although there had been an earlier difficulty in locating the
              201 on de Torres because of a matronymic/patronymic filing problem, the
              HSCA  had been given access to all files over a month ago. Mr. Shepanek
              acknowledged that third agency documents were inadvertently left in the file
              which was provided to HSCA researcher Edwin Lopez. Mr. Lopez took notes
              upon these documents and submitted his notes for review at which time the
              error became  known. The third agency documents, FBI items, were forwarded
              to Mr. Coulson on 28 April (Friday) for FBI review and possible release to
              HSCA.   Mr. Coulson acknowledged that he had these materials and hoped to
              make  them available to the Committee at FBI Headquarters immediately
              following the meeting.

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